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I am a born-again Christian, who is Reformed, but also charismatic, spiritually speaking. (I do not speak in tongues, but I believe glossalalia is a bona fide gift not given to all, and not as great as prophecy, for example.) I have several years of college education but only completed a two-year degree. I was raised Lutheran and confirmed, but I didn't "find Christ" until I was in the Army and responded to a Billy Graham crusade in 1973. I was mentored or discipled by the Navigators in the army and upon discharge joined several evangelical, Bible-teaching churches. I was baptized as an infant, but believe in believer baptism, of which I was a partaker after my conversion experience. I believe in the "5 Onlys" of the reformation: sola fide (faith alone); sola Scriptura (Scripture alone); soli Christo (Christ alone), sola gratia (grace alone), and soli Deo gloria (to God alone be the glory). I affirm TULIP as defended in the Reformation.. I affirm most of The Westminster Confession of Faith, especially pertaining to Providence.

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Why Is There Only One Religion?

 
Scientifically, why would one religion be more right than the other?

  1. The effect on the course of history and on Western Civilization itself.
  2. Christianity is the “mother of modern science,” due to its worldview, with no scientific absurdities in the Bible.
  3. The Bible tells us that nature is governed by laws (cf. Job 38:33); dozens of scientific facts are in the Bible which were not known by science at the time.
  4. Most early modern scientists were Christians.
  5. The abundant evidence of witnesses and martyrs with similar experiences.
  6. The laws of evidence must be considered and evidence weighed, without bias.
  7. The laws of cause and effect and noncontradiction. eliminate contradiction as acceptable.
  8. Harmonizing the conflicting faiths is impossible with so many diverse and contradictory claims of who God is.
  9. The subjective evidence of experiencing God; evidenced even by martyrdom.
  10. The fact of the resurrection of Christ is pivotal to changing history.
  11. The objective evidence of history, documents, and records; the Bible itself.
  12. The fact that truth by its very nature is exclusive: Jesus said He is the Way.
  13. The value of God’s challenge to “Taste and see that the LORD is good.”
  14. The proof of the pudding is in the eating; put God to the test; take the leap! God invites you to Him in an open invitation.
  15. God invites you by faith; science is by faith also; both involve people of faith.
  16. You need not kiss your brains goodbye to understand, there are answers from the Answerer.
  17. The fact that it’s not faith versus reason but faith versus faith; both sides use facts and evidence and come to different conclusions because of confirmation bias; neither is wholly impartial.
  18. You cannot demonstrate or measure God by experiment or laboratory conditions but you can see His effects just like you don’t see the wind but know its effects.
  19. God is not audible, visible, nor tangible, thus He is outside the parameters of science and one must have faith to find the true God; but God has revealed Himself in the person of Jesus Christ and also in the Old Testament to prophets.
  20. God is a metaphysical concept and not shown, observed, or tested by the physical, which science demands, thus complicating the issue.


There is no reason a Christian cannot be a good scientist or a scientist cannot be a good Christian. The fact that false religions are not wholly wrong but have an element of truth or just enough to inoculate or immunize one from the real thing. Christianity claims to be the truth and only way to God as Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man comes to the Father except by Me,.” One must reckon that no other religious founder made such audacious and bold claims of being God and the only truth; this must be taken into account and reckoned with.

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